EQUINE-ASSISTED PSYCHOTHERAPY (EAP)

Therapy with horses helps people understand relationships, boundaries, and trust, improving behavior and life skills.

EAP sessions help clients get a deeper insight into their understanding of relationships, boundaries, and trust. Working with horses provides an opportunity for profound work and rapid behavioral growth. Used alongside individual therapy, the insights gained in sessions can be practiced with horses, helping clients add more skills to their daily lives.

WHAT YOU CAN LEARN WITH HORSES?

EAP fosters relationship improvement, trauma healing, self-regulation, leadership, and life skills.

Relationship skills – EAP helps you understand your relationships and attachment styles, offering opportunities to practice positive changes.

Trauma healing – EAP aids in healing from traumatic events, improving thought processes, and reducing reactivity in crises.

Self-Regulation – EAP teaches self-awareness and interaction with the world. Working with horses engages your whole brain, promoting rhythm and self-regulation for a centered self.

Leadership & life skills – EAP’s “Pressure and Release” principles provide insights into setting healthy boundaries, encouraging good choices, and expressing needs in relationships.

WHY HORSES

Horses can teach us leadership, presence, honesty, and connection.

Horses are sensitive. They read our emotional states, sense our heartbeats, feel our energy levels, and then relate to us accordingly.

Horses are social. They want to know who is the leader, they want safety, and they want relationship. This gives us endless opportunities to practice our skills of providing these things, with instant feedback and rewarding relationships.

Horses live in the present. They respond to what we do now, not what we did in the past or may do in the future. They give us opportunities to change and to practice new behaviors.

Horses are honest and they are big. We can’t manipulate horses with our words. They do not lie to us, and we cannot lie to them. They give us honest feedback that we can apply to our lives.

CHALLENGES WE TREAT

We understand the challenges you’re facing and are here to support you at every step.

Wellspring addresses a spectrum of challenges ranging from emotions, relationships, self-management and skills to become an emotional athlete. Our dedicated team provides support tailored to your needs, fostering growth and well-being.

SCHEDULE AN APPOINTMENT

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“Above all else, guard your heart, for it is the wellspring of life”
– Proverbs 4:23

CONTACT INFORMATION

Find a Location

Find our offices online, in churches, and in partner ministry facilites.

Wellspring houses some of its offices within churches. This arrangement has 3 advantages:

1) Clients see that local churches care about their mental health needs;
2) We can cross-refer our clients to receive spiritual care, social connections, and Bible teaching within a local community;
3) This reduces our overhead costs, allowing us to serve more clients.

Palmetto Bay

Old Cutler Presbyterian Church / Wellspring Main Offices
14401 Old Cutler Road
Palmetto Bay, FL 33158

Coral Gables

Christ Journey Church
635 Anastasia Avenue
Coral Gables, FL 33134

Key Largo

First Baptist Church of Key Largo
99001 Overseas Hwy
Key Largo, FL 33037

Pinecrest

Kendall United Methodist Church / Sanctuary House (next door)
7600 SW 104th St
Pinecrest, FL 33156

West Kendall

Miami Vineyard Church
12727 SW 122nd Avenue
Miami, FL 33186

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